I read that when Lincoln visited Richmond after it fell, the slaves swarmed him with adulation and appreciation. They knew it was Lincoln, a Republican that freed them from Democrat slavery.
One of the more interesting things about Virginia is how almost nothing is named after Lincoln.
You kind of get the impression that they really didn’t like him there for some reason.
“I read that when Lincoln visited Richmond after it fell, the slaves swarmed him with adulation and appreciation. They knew it was Lincoln, a Republican that freed them from Democrat slavery.”
The best part of America’s confused understanding of Civil War history is that Lincoln didn’t free any slaves in the United States.
The Emancipation proclamation was an executive order applying only to “the States in Rebellion”, aka the Confederacy. The same with Juneteenth.
Enslaved persons in the United States weren’t freed until the 13th Amendment was ratified in December 1865, months after both Juneteenth and Lincoln’s assassination.
Extra credit goes to those who have read Lincoln’s April 15, 1861 message to Congress in which he announces the purpose of his war against the seceding States. Slavery isn’t mentioned.